HUD secretary directs agency to ban transgender women from federally funded women-only shelters

On his archetypal time successful office, Eric Turner made a bold determination arsenic Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 

He directed bureau unit to suspend each pending and aboriginal enforcement actions related to the Obama-era Equal Access Rule, which required HUD-funded programs and shelters to find eligibility based connected a person's self-identified gender.

Turner said that the determination was portion of President Donald Trump's docket to "restore biologic information to the national government."

"We privation to support the ladies entering immoderate HUD facilities," Turner told reporters Thursday, adding that helium wants to "restore adjacent rights, but nary other rights." The Secretary added that astir of the females who utilize HUD shelters already travel from home unit situations, and helium wants to guarantee that their tragedies are not exacerbated erstwhile they crook to the national authorities for help.

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Trump's recently confirmed HUD Secretary Eric Turner is rescinding rules prohibiting federally funded shelters from asking for impervious of someone's biologic gender.

Turner's directive follows Trump's Day One enforcement bid terminating national diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and mandating the national authorities lone admit 2 genders, antheral and female. This week, Trump signed an enforcement bid preventing biologic males who place arsenic females from competing connected women's sports teams, arsenic good arsenic different prohibiting minors from receiving puberty blockers oregon modulation surgery.

Under the 2016 Equal Access Rule that Turner is rescinding, stateless shelters, home unit shelters and different federally funded HUD-assisted lodging programs were prohibited from requiring radical to beryllium they are biologically female. Following Turner's directive, this volition nary longer beryllium prohibited. 

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In 2018, 9 California women filed a suit against a section women's structure successful Fresno, which operates with nationalist funds, for allegedly forcing them to instrumentality showers alongside a biologic antheral who identified arsenic a pistillate and who they claimed sexually harassed them. 

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Last year, constabulary successful Greenville, South Carolina, arrested a transgender woman, Michelle Silva Perez, for stabbing a structure worker aft Perez was admitted to the exigency structure meant lone for women and mothers. The facility, which receives some authorities and national funding, said it would person acted otherwise if it had known that the fishy was not a biologic woman.

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A protester holds a placard extracurricular of the Pennsylvania Capitol this week during a 50501 Movement protesting the Trump administration's policies aimed astatine transgender folks.

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